My company has a travel agreement with QF, hence QF it was, codeshare or otherwise. Further the RJ option would mean a 2 tranist and backtracking option if you had a Gulf city destination(which other than BEY most of my trips are)
I guess I'll stick with CX now until QF comes up with another ME partner(should they indeed bother). I think CX is a superior option to RJ/QF.